II. Marie Dumas’ Inventory of Household Furnishings: A Translation

[dateline] [22 June 1784]

Inventories of everything belonging to his Excellency Mr. Adams, esquire, as well
as what I received from Amsterdam that I purchased per order of his Excellency Mr.
Adams, and also items that I purchased that were absolutely necessary for his home.
Several articles will not be found on Mr. Thaxter’s inventory, such as chairs, tables,
carpets of all sorts, mirrors, beds, and several articles of useful furnishings necessary
to run a household. Done by me, Marie Dumas, at The Hague, 22 June 1784.

FC in an unknown hand (Adams Papers). For a description of this document see the descriptive note to John Thaxter’s inventories
of 14 May and 16 Oct. 1782 (No. I, above).

1. This portrait of George Washington has not been located or identified, but it may
be a copy of John Trumbull’s 1780 portrait of Washington owned by Jean de Neufville
and known as the “De Neufville Washington.” De Neufville apparently commissioned an
otherwise unidentified artist named Giraúd to copy Trumbull’s work. For the Trumbull
portrait, Giraúd’s copy, and the possibility that de Neufville gave the copy to JA, see Jean de Neufville’s letter of 7 Feb., note 1, and references there (vol. 12:231).

3. This is probably the pastel or crayon portrait done by Isaak Schmidt during the period
between April and July 1783, following JQA’s return to the Netherlands from St. Petersburg. For a description of this portrait,
which is now in the National Portrait Gallery, and a reproduction, see AFC, 5:xv–xvi, 215.

4. This portrait of CA was presumably done before his departure for America in mid-1781 but has been neither
located nor identified. It is probably this portrait that JA refers to in his letter of 3 July 1782 to Jean de Neufville & Fils, below, where
he inquires about reimbursing the de Neufville firm for the “Expence . . . of the
Frame of my sons [picture].”